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'Trophy hunting' is the selective hunting of wild game. It also refers to ''canned hunting''. While parts of the slain animal may be kept as a ''hunting trophy'' or memorial (usually the skin, antlers and/or head), the carcass itself is usually used as food.
Trophy hunting has firm supporters and opponents. Public debate about trophy hunting often centres on the question of the morality of sport hunting and the question of the extent to which the money paid by trophy hunters benefits the population of game animals and the local economy.
Trophy hunting should not be confused with poaching, a very different hunting practice.

Contents

The hunting "trophy"

Big game hunting

Trophy hunting fees and conservation

Opposition

References

Further reading

See also

External links

The hunting "trophy"

A hunting trophy is an item prepared from the body of a game animal killed by a hunter and kept as a souvenir of the successful hunting or fishing expedition.
Often the heads or entire bodies are processed by a taxidermist, although sometimes other body parts such as teeth or horns are used as the trophies. Hunting for the singular purpose of obtaining trophies is often considered improper today. Such trophies have also been produced from humans in cultures that accept cannibalism or when two societies clash in war. Again, this is not acceptable in modern times, and generally goes against the rules of war.

Big game hunting

A big-game hunter is a person engaged in the sport of trophy hunting for large animals or game. The pursuit of the major objective might place the hunter at risk of personal harm. Potential big-game sought include, but are not limited to, bears, big cats, boar, elephants, moose, and so forth.

Trophy hunting fees and conservation

Along with Indian Blackbuck, Nilgai and many other exotic deer and antelope many from Africa, there are also Barasinga now found living in the wild in Texas, USA on lands managed as Hunting Ranches. Barasinga were brought to USA ~100 year back to be introduced onto land which is managed for sport hunting. Hunters pay about $40000 as trophy fees for hunting a Barasinga.

Opposition

In the 1970s and 1980s, many western countries assumed a pejorative association regarding hunting for trophy. By the twentieth century, there is widespread consensus in animal welfare organizations and in segments of the population as a whole that trophy hunting is to be strongly discouraged. Many of the 189 countries signatory to the 1992 Rio Accord have developed Biodiversity Action Plans that discourage the hunting of protected species.^[1][2]
The League Against Cruel Sports has produced a report, alleging that trophy hunting does not have a positive impact on conservation.^[3]

References

1. Born Free statement on canned hunting
2. Arguments against trophy hunting
3. Critique of argued benefits - from the League Against Cruel Sports

Further reading

★ Foa, E. ''After Big Game in Central Africa.'' St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-03274-9.

See also

★ Hunting

★ Hunting license

★ Big Five game

★ Fox hunting

★ Elephant gun

★ Polar bear hunting

★ Deer hunting

★ Reindeer hunting in Greenland

External links

★ Big Game Hunting with Hounds

★ Safari Press